The philosophy of the Core Curriculum rests on the conviction that every Harvard graduate should be broadly educated, as well as trained in a particular academic specialty or concentration. It assumes that students need some guidance in achieving this goal, and that the faculty has an obligation to direct them toward the knowledge, intellectual skills, and habits of thought that are the hallmarks of educated men and women.

Historical Study - exemplos: 12. International Conflict and Cooperation in the Modern World, 13. China: Traditions and Transformations, 19. The Renaissance in Florence

Literature and Arts - exemplos: 16. Lives Ruined by Literature: The Theme of Reading in the Novel, 26. Dante’s Divine Comedy and Its World, 51. Virgil: Poetry and Reception, 170a). The Art of Film, 34. Frank Lloyd Wright and the Modern City and Suburb